Indirect Procurement Manager, APAC

Edrington; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

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Medical insurance

24/7 wellbeing support

Descripción de la vacante

Edrington is seeking a procurement lead for APAC to manage indirect spend, especially POSM/Marketing Services. You will partner with marketing and commercial teams to drive savings, governance and supplier performance across APAC markets.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and compliance with global procurement standards. The successful candidate will coordinate with regional teams, support agency strategies, and contribute to cost efficiency and brand

Formación

• Financial acumen is key, with budget setting and adherence paramount.
• Prior experience at POSM & Visibility-IMO, ATL or BTL, Procurement project management is essential to this role.
• Demonstrated capability of key stakeholder engagement, relationship building and process management especially in the marketing service is essential.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to communicate locally with the team in APAC and China and good command in both verbal & written English & Chinese.
• Strong problem solving, negotiation, presentation, organizational skills.
• Hands-on computer knowledge in MS Word, Excel, Power point.
• Previous experience of SAP/ Power BI would be advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Building strong connections with key business partners and ensuring procurement strategy alignment and compliance.
• Engages internal stakeholders to identify projects with significant savings potential.
• Lead for APAC POSM Hub development to streamline POSM execution across APAC.
• Develop strategy and implementation plan for agencies category (Marketing ATL/BTL) in APAC to maximize value.
• Negotiate with suppliers to secure best value and professional partnerships.
• Support business leaders with strategic and operational sourcing strategies.
• Assist supplier evaluations and vendor pool assessments to ensure quality and compliance.
• Stay updated on regional trends and offer innovative ideas for marketing spends.
• Develop procurement project plans with objectives, timelines, and supplier criteria.
• Execute end-to-end procurement involvement of marketing spending.
• Manage interactions with service providers and drive performance improvements.
• Maintain knowledge of procurement best practices.

Conocimientos

Financial acumen

POSM/Visibility

Stakeholder engagement

Bilingual English/Chinese

Negotiation

Presentation

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Herramientas

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP

Power BI

Descripción del empleo

Our Craft

Edrington’s vision is to give more by crafting exceptional ultra-premium spirit brands. The Macallan is our central focus, supported by Highland Park and The Glenrothes in the single malt category. Our portfolio is completed with Brugal premium rum from the Dominican Republic. Edrington also has a strategic partnership with No.3 London Dry Gin.

Our Craft

Edrington’s vision is to give more by crafting exceptional ultra-premium spirit brands. The Macallan is our central focus, supported by Highland Park and The Glenrothes in the single malt category. Our portfolio is completed with Brugal premium rum from the Dominican Republic. Edrington also has a strategic partnership with No.3 London Dry Gin. Our principal shareholder is a charitable trust, so we were built to make a world of difference. Discover a place where values define our culture. The home of exceptional brands, where people and teams thrive.

Our Blend Of Benefits

• 4 Giving More volunteer days
• Medical insurance
• 24/7 support for you and your loved ones to counselling, life coaching and information on financial, mental, and physical wellbeing

Embrace Excellence

This role is responsible for providing indirect procurement category management support to the Edrington APAC business, including responsibility for strategy and implementation for APAC POSM HUB, Marketing Service category for SEACPAC and TW, including, ATL/BTL categories that will effectively meet the needs of business and deliver the maximum value for the business in APAC markets. This includes business engagement, procurement category strategy & enablement activities, from sourcing, bidding, quotation management, contract management to supplier management and category management. This role will be a key business partner to our marketing, commercial functions and a key contributor to the governance and compliance agenda in the business.

Make an Impact

• Building strong connections with key business partners. Managing the needs and expectations of the business to drive satisfaction while ensuring compliance to procurement standards and alignment with procurement strategies.
• Engages and collaborates with internal stakeholders to understand local business context and to build the pipeline of projects that have significant saving potential.
• Acting as the lead for APAC POSM Hub development, exploring a centralized model for cost, speed & brand consistency to streamline POSM execution across APAC.
• Developing the strategy and implementation plan for agencies category (Marketing ATL/BTL) of spend in APAC market that will effectively meet the needs of the business and deliver the maximum value, ensuring category management is aligned with global & regional & local strategies and business needs.
• Manage negotiations with suppliers to ensure the best value and terms are achieved for the business whilst maintaining good, professional working relationships with our partners.
• Partner and support business leaders to develop strategic and operational sourcing strategies, ensuring collaborative and innovation driven relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Support supplier evaluations and vendor pool assessments to ensure our suppliers can be held accountable for delivery and our vendor pool remains competitive, of high quality and compliant.
• Stay abreast of regional & local trends to assist the stakeholders in their existing needs and provide innovative ideas for efficient marketing spends.
• Develop procurement project plans to define objectives, resources, timeline, specification, supplier selection criteria in Marketing areas.
• Executes end to end procurement involvement of marketing spending of appropriate size and scope.
• Managing the interactions with the organizations that supply the services to the company including relationship building, data review and analysis, performance management, development, improvement, and innovation.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the relevant industrial and global/regional procurement best practices.

Your Talent And Skills

• Financial acumen is key, with budget setting and adherence paramount.
• Prior experience at POSM & Visibility-IMO, ATL or BTL, Procurement project management is essential to this role.
• Demonstrated capability of key stakeholder engagement, relationship building and process management especially in the marketing service is essential.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to communicate locally with the team in APAC and China and good command in both verbal & written English & Chinese.
• Strong problem solving, negotiation, presentation, organizational skills.
• Hands-on computer knowledge in MS Word, Excel, Power point.
• Previous experience of SAP/ Power BI would be advantageous.

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